[television] orphan black | "let these waves wash over me..."

[waltzmatildah]

I have this forever unfulfilling habit of falling in total curiosity and sometimes even love with television characters who are rarely, if ever, given any actual screen time. They might be mentioned as having been significant to an actual character but they, themselves, are not ACTUALLY CHARACTERS. To varying degrees. I'll fic them, sometimes at

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[waltzmatildah]

I realise that you've probably well and truly got your answer by now but I'm replying anyway because it seems you're the only other person I know who is at least semi-keen to talk about OB at the moment! I feel like it lost a lot of fans last season...

Anyway... BETH! The whole season four premiere, with the exception of about two minutes at the end, was a Beth POV flashback episode. It captured the dynamic between Paul and Beth, Art and Beth's sexual history, her mental health issues, the way she and Cosima and Alison were working together/interacting. It was so good. SO GOOD! And it finished with her shooting Maggie Chen (and Art concocting her cover up story), not with her jumping in front of the train, so there is definitely space for more. I don't know if the actor who plays Paul is scheduled for anymore episodes, that might be the biggest clue to more flashbacks...

We also met another clone, MK. Beth had met with her face to face and at the end of the new episode, MK gets in touch with Sarah. The episode also highlighted the sometimes fuzzy role of Neolution as far as being the Big Bad goes.

I am definitely back to being ALL IN for season four after kind of wandering away, investment wise, during parts of season three.